They sentenced Oscar “N” to more than 20 years in prison for a 2020 femicide at CDMX

Oscar “N” was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison after the judicial authorities found him responsible for femicide committed in February 2020, reported the attorney general of justice Since Mexico City (FGJCDMX).

According to the agency’s report, a judge determined that the evidence presented was compelling, for which he was sentenced to 20 years and five months in prison.

During each of the hearings, the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the General Coordination of the Prosecution, Procedure and Prosecutor’s Office produced various pieces of evidence, which accredit and reinforce this Oscar “N” was the culprit of violently murdering a woman.

Due to the above, the defendant was shown to have actively participated in femicide and served over two decades in South Male Remand Jail. In addition, the judge ordered him to pay the compensation for moral prejudice and damages.

“Because of the quantum of the sentence, he was denied criminal substitutes and prison benefits, in addition, and his political rights were suspended“, said the prosecution.

The femicide was perpetrated on the afternoon of February 16, 2020, when the victim had an argument with Oscar “N”, when she was suddenly beaten and injured with a sharp weapon until she died.

In 2020, other femicides were also reported, including two that shocked the public; one of them led to the drafting of a law for the protection of victims and their families.

It was the femicide of Ingrid Escamille and that of Daughter Fatima. The first occurred in an apartment in Mayor Gustavo A. Madero’s office, after her romantic partner beat and skinned her in an attempt to dispose of the body. In this case, photographs of the corpse circulated on social networks, causing outrage; however, he gave in to Ley Ingrid, which prohibits and punishes those who disseminate images of victims of aggression (especially women).

In 2020, shortly after the Ingrid Escamilla’s feminicide was recorded on Fatima, a seven-year-old girl who was reported missing Santiago Tulyehualco colony. As she was leaving school, she was taken by a woman her mother knew to her attacker, who sexually assaulted and then murdered her.

The little girl’s remains were found in abandoned bags in the office of the mayor of Tláhuac, less than 5 kilometers from her school. For this case, Gladis Giovana Cruz Hernández and Mario Alberto Reyes Nájera were arrested and punished.

According to information from the capital’s public prosecutor’s office, committed femicides are concentrated (57.1% of the total) in five municipalities: Iztapalapa, Cuauhtemoc, Tlalpan, Gustavo A. Wood, and Alvaro Obregon.

At the end of 2022, two demarcations stood out: Milpa Alta, having registered three femicides in one month, and on the other hand, Cuajimalpa, having reported no cases until the end of the year.

The feminicide balance for each mayor’s office through the end of 2022 was as follows:

Iztapalapa: 10

Cuauhtemoc: 9

Talpan: 8

Gustavo A. Madero: 7

Alvaro Obregon: 6

Xochimilco: 5

Iztacalco: 4

Miguel Hidalgo: 4

Tlahuac: 4

Milpa Alta: 4

Azcapotzalco: 3

Venustiano Carranza: 3

Benito Juárez: 1

Coyoacan: 1

Madeleine Contreras: 1

Quajimalpa:

On a national level Juarez, Nuevo Leon, was the municipality with the highest number of deaths (17). The second commune is a homonym of the first; Juárez with 15 crimes, but it is located in Chihuahua.